October 2025: The Company of Monsters Zine Issue 1
Added 2025-12-16 01:59:29 +0000 UTCWe are now releasing The Company of Monsters in the format of a zine.
This has been a difficult game to write for many reasons. The last few years have been especially hard. So I decided to change the format, in the hopes that new tactics would make for more progress. So I'm trying to make an ashcan edition in the format of a 48-page zine, with however many issues it takes. This is the first issue, which explains the premise of The Company of Monsters, and gives the basic rules.
You can download the pdf from this post, and you can buy the printed zine using this link (it's 5.5 x 8.5 halfletter size, premium B&W interior, cream-coloured pages, staplebound):
You can buy it for the cost of printing and shipping right now, and when it becomes available to the general public the price will go up slightly, although the point is to make it easy to play the game so they will still be cheap.
Issue 2 will follow shortly and give the rules for making characters.
I should note that this is an ashcan playtest version of the game. These rules will definitely change, but probably not very drastically.
